Daily Espresso ☕ — Thursday, 2026-09-03

TL;DR

A high-volume day in rippled with 11 PRs merged to develop — headlined by the 3.4.0-rc1 version bump, key rotation support in MPTokenIssuanceSet, signature prefix fixes gated on fixCleanup3_4_0, escrow reserve recycling, and a backfill of API-CHANGELOG.md for releases 3.1.1–3.3.0. On XRPL-Standards, five specs merged including the finalization of XLS-96, a new XLS-99 spec for Confidential MPT Key Rotation, and float host function updates to XLS-102. The developer portal updated its events page with Swell 2026 and upcoming community events.

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What Merged

rippled — Version bumped to 3.4.0-rc1. rippled#8171
rippled — Added support for key rotation in MPTokenIssuanceSet (+955/−43). rippled#7915
rippled — Added signature prefixes for sfCounterpartySignature and sfSponsorSignature, gated on fixCleanup3_4_0, preventing cross-role signature reuse (+924/−124). Previously opened. rippled#8162
rippled — Escrow reserve now recycled in EscrowCancel and EscrowFinish before funds move, gated on fixCleanup3_4_0. Previously opened. rippled#8142
rippled — Fixed flaky online delete tests and added coverage for health checks from #5531 (+1193/−39). rippled#8137
rippled — Backfilled API-CHANGELOG.md for releases 3.1.1 through 3.3.0, moving shipped entries out of Unreleased. Previously opened. rippled#8159
rippled — Four CI/build fixes: stopped using github.workspace to speed up gcovr (#8173), verified glibc version in Debian packages (#8170), updated pre-commit SHA (#8169), updated prepare-runner SHA (#8168).
rippled — Consistent heading levels in the PR template. rippled#8155
XRPL-Standards — XLS-96 finalized (status moved from Draft to Final). XRPL-Standards#604
XRPL-Standards — New spec XLS-99: Confidential MPT Key Rotation added (+1300 lines). XRPL-Standards#598
XRPL-Standards — Made DynamicMPT opt-in-immutable. XRPL-Standards#583
XRPL-Standards — Updated XLS-65 VaultWithdraw failure conditions and state changes to match implementation. XRPL-Standards#553
XRPL-Standards — Added float host functions and versioning rules to XLS-102 (§5.8 and §5.11). XRPL-Standards#504
xrpl-dev-portal — Events page updated with four upcoming community events (Madrid, Barcelona, NYC) and Swell 2026 as the hero. xrpl-dev-portal#3911

Opened

rippled — fixCleanup3_5_0 amendment placeholder added. Approved, has conflicts. rippled#8174
xrpl.js — Quarterly batch dependency upgrade for 2026-Q3, consolidating 33 Dependabot PRs and resolving 26 Semgrep tickets (+2849/−3804). xrpl.js#3461
xrpl4j — Single asset vault support (+1092/−25). xrpl4j#832
clio — Migrating first handlers (account_info, account_currencies) to rpc-spec system (+828/−675). clio#3199
XRPL-Standards — Rename rippled to xrpld throughout XLS-102 (editorial). XRPL-Standards#620
XRPL-Standards — Remove float_root host function from XLS-102, syncing with rippled#8110. XRPL-Standards#618
XRPL-Standards — New spec proposal: Onchain Cosigner (+1177 lines). XRPL-Standards#613
xrpl-dev-portal — MPT Migration Guide opened (+260 lines). xrpl-dev-portal#3678
xrpl-dev-portal — Add Ruby SDK and examples to docs (+325/−48). xrpl-dev-portal#3837

Discussions

XRPL-Standards — New discussion proposing a Native Risk Sleeve for XRPL credit facilities. XRPL-Standards#617

Quick Stats

16 PRs merged, 22 opened, 1 issue across 6 repos.

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